To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“..the dark walks, so favourable to the interviews of young lovers” — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“It is those who injure women who get the most kindness from them.” — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“Here is a minute. It may be my love is dead, but here is a minute to kneel over the grave and… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love-business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end! — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Almost all women will give a sympathizing hearing to men who are in love. Be they ever so old, they grow young… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever.… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
She lived in her past life — every letter seemed to recall some circumstance of it. How well she remembered them all!… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“No, you are not worthy of the love which I have devoted to you. I knew all along that the prize I… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Sure, love vincit omnia; is immeasurably above all ambition, more precious than wealth, more noble than name. He knows not life who… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
We love being in love, that's the truth on't. If we had not met Joan, we should have met Kate, and adored… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
If love lives through all life; and survives through all sorrow; and remains steadfast with us through all changes; and in all… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
To describe love-making is immoral and immodest; you know it is. To describe it as it really is, or would appear to… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Forgotten tones of love recur to us, and kind glances shine out of the past--oh so bright and clear!--oh so longed after!--because… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Where is truth, forsooth, and who knoweth it? Is Beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so? Does… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“We are Turks with the affections of our women; and have made them subscribe to our doctrine too. We let their bodies… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
If dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am I lost and hopeless living, if a sainted departed… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“To those great geniuses now in petticoats, who shall write novels for the beloved reader's children, these men and things will be as much… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share
When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share
Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share
As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share
Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness, shall follow… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share
Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share
To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share
An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share
“Picture to yourself, O fair young reader, a worldly, selfish, graceless, thankless, religionless old woman, writhing in pain and fear, and without her wig.… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share
Certain opuscules, denominated 'Christmas Books,' with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share
![“When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her temper, her money, their own money, or suitableness for the married life… Ha, ha, ha! Let us fool in this way no more. I have been in love forty-three times with all ranks and…” quote by William Makepeace Thackeray](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b71/william-makepeace-thackeray-74_been-in-love_when-men-see-a-pretty-woman-and-feel-the_1904924.jpg)
